Tag: Bechtel Prize
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You Must Change Your Life
Demystifying and remystifying poetry in the classroom.
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Here Papi Catch
A teaching artist guides students through the movie in their minds.
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Is That a Rock?
Erasure as empowerment in the middle school classroom.
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Remaining Nameless
How writing anonymous personal narrative essays transformed a Bronx classroom.
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Some Victorious Answer to Everything
Bill Murray and Ferlinghetti’s “Dog" as an invitation to write new poetry.
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Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose
2022 Bechtel Prize Winner Shilpi Suneja's students make language their subject.
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Making Sense of It All
High School Poetry in the Age of Zoom
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Voices in the Dark
Teaching writing from a distance in times of isolation and crisis.
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Three Words Away a Poem Awaits
Using typewriters to excite poetry students and to engage them in generative writing and the power of language.
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Jibseria
A Garden Mythology
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At First, the Ground Shakes
The impact of war and family turmoil on a young student, the healing power of writing, and who has the right to tell our stories.
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Poetry as a Mirror
2018 Runner-up of the Bechtel Prize
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The Ball Turned into Poetry
A Conversation with Glenis Redmond
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Words, Images, and Music
How We Enter
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Dear Mr. Doctorow
2017 Runner-up of the Bechtel Prize
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I Hate Writing
On the Necessity of Being Vulnerable
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Inside Words
How to Teach Writing in Prison
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Now Let’s Stare at the Purple
Where do your poems come from?
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The Possum
Using a shared experience to infuse student writing with creativity and meaning.
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A Slip into the Breaks
Teaching jazz poetry.
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Weaving Voices
Writing as a working-class daughter, professor, and poet.
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The Tree Project
2004 Winner of the Bechtel Prize
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A Native Music
Writing the city in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Within Words
Making students at home in the language of literature.